Bright's Boffins

- Season 1

(1970)

The scientists who work in the long-forgotten Government establishment "Halfwitt House" receive no official help other than a grant that barely covers the gas bill. In order to keep the place operative the commanding officer, Bertram Bright, will lie, cheat, bribe or blackmail - probably all at once.

The boffins consider going on strike when Bright prevents them from building a companion for the lonely Oswald.

Two ghost hunters arrive at Halfwitt House, sent by Sir Desmond Dark. Bright decides to give them more ghosts than they can handle.

Bright suspects there is a foreign agent in their midst and when Berk starts sending secret messages he alerts the other boffins to catch him red-handed.

When the boffins invent a "creature expanding" device a Chicago mobster turns up demanding to made big,

Bright and Molly accidentally find themselves in space in the rocket designed for Oswald.

There are security concerns at Halfwitt House.

Bright's latest invention is a nuclear submarine, but the launch doesn't go to plan for the R.A.F. boffins of Halfwitt House.

Bright find Oswald's mind-reading device and decides to put it to use.

Bright and the boffins test out Catseye's latest invention - a deflatable dinghy.

Bright holds a fete at Halfwitt House to raise money and morale.

Every 100 years a curse descends on Halfwitt House, and the century is up tonight.

Bright has finally gained recognition and is summoned to Whitehall to receive an award.